REGISTER-GUARD TOP DOG PERO GONE

We heard unconfirmed rumors that The Register-Guard's highly paid chief operating officer David Pero got himself fired Friday after more than five years. Maybe leaving was his idea, but that's not what we heard. Nothing in the paper or online, unless we missed it. We checked his LinkedIn profile and sure enough, it lists the R-G as his employer from February 2007 to June 2012. Pero was overseeing editorial, advertising, circulation, marketing, production and technology, including the website.

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Ted Taylor was editor-in-chief of Eugene Weekly from 1998 to his retirement in 2016, and he remains a contributing writer. He is a UO journalism grad with 30 years experience in daily and weekly newspaper writing, editing and managing.